skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Normal users will not do this. J

Unfortunately a lot of the "freedom" crowd think that unless you want to be an 80s sysadmin you don't deserve security or privacy. Or computers.
I thought gradient descent always followed the steepest slope, this looks like a physics simulation where marbles are rolling down hills. In mathematical gradient descent do you really oscillate around the minimum like a marble rocking back and forth in a pit?

Edit: Oh, I see. The animations are "momentum" gradient descent
i think the best way to describe it is to consider what an office in these types of buildings looks like.

consider a detective office in a movie from like the '50s. the office is small, primary illumination is from large, openable windows, maybe there's a front section for a secretary. that happens to be pretty more or less around the ideal size for an apartment as well, though for more bedrooms you probably need to merge adjacent offices.

now consider the office block from Office Space. it's extremely large and dark in the middle. it is so large that there is no way you could possibly get natural light into the middle easily. in Office Space that's kind of the point, the darkness and required artificial lighting makes it super depressing and a dystopian commentary on the modern economy. who would want to live in an interior like that?
> Also if a senior person can't in 30/45 min of talking with someone figure out the general experience level then the problem is them, really.

Actually most of them, including the really inexperienced juniors have 'figured' you out in less that 15 minutes, or at least they have decided whether to hire you or not in 15 minutes. But they have to put on a charade of being fair.

Also a 'white' older male is the least preferred even if he is smarter compared to all females and the minorities that are being interviewed as long as they are not terrible. Biases galore.
> In my work, if you literally cannot write any code while also discussing the code, and if you literally cannot express thoughts while also thinking them, then you actually wont exceed at the actual job function, at all.

Followed by

> You're not the only programmer on the team.

It sounds like you're implying some connection between the two, whereas most successful teams don't require the behavior your team is demanding. Including the ones with good communication skills.

I can write code well. I can discuss it well. I simply don't need to do both at the same time. Unless people are in a pair programming session, they don't need to openly discuss the code while they're thinking about them and writing them. They can discuss the problem before and after. Why do they need to discuss it while coding?

It's like telling journalists or authors "Hey, if you can't discuss your story with the editor while you are authoring it then you can't succeed here."
https://archive.is/Rg8g2
Indefinitely, even in the case of near-total destruction.

While not exactly historical fiction, this scene from Dr. Strangelove comes to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y
I'd put it like this: RAG = search engine, but sometimes hallucinates

RAG + deterministic quoting = search engine that displays real excerpts from pages.
Having used groq and other fast LLM services a fair bit, lag seems negligible. You're literally just passing text at close to the speed of light.
Super Mario World code injection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
The same thing can be (and is!) said about luxury car brands. That's what makes the MacBook Air a luxury item.

Most people, when given the pitch you just gave me for a 2x increase in price, will choose the cheaper item, just like they choose the cheaper car.
Show HN: Funance – An Investment Simulator Game
There is also a weekly blog which is a work in progress...
Other industries do not require repeating the license exam. Many have continuing education or other professional development requirements. These can be expensive and time consuming but not difficult generally.
This will be good. I love the way bing chat summarizes. No more bad Google results. I need longer with bing Chat but most of the time it's ok and I get less stressed by Google results. Let see what Happens.
Same - except many of my friends were reading for fun. Oh this has a skeleton on the cover? Guess I’ll read everything this guy/gal ever wrote.

All the libraries I’ve been to recently are very well set up for discoverability. Especially the kids section. There are hundreds of books on display with some indication of what it’s like and themed sections and all kinds of stuff
Yeah, my wife has some of the dongles for her iPhone, and.. they don't seem very reliable. Even when you can keep track of them.
Thanks, didn’t know the floors were also structural supports. I thought they just hung from the central core.

Oh well.
> Which honestly is still good for the environment to have the work distributed across the entire electricity grid.

Sometimes, but parallelization has a cost. The power consumption from 400,000,000 iPhones downloading a 2gb LLM is not negligible, probably more than what you'd consume running it as a REST API on a remote server. Not to mention slower.
It's more than just a density problem. People need to be locally consistent.

They need a place that caters to their culture(including the town or city itself - micro culture) - they need a place to hang out with people of like mind, they need hobbies and places to go, they need restaurants, events, parks, quiet places, loud and busy places, areas to connect with nature, areas to focus on business or meet fellow enthusiasts. It's not a numbers game .... it's human emotions and reality.

we need hospitals and daycares and public pools, arcades, shops, zoos, heritage sites, pop ups, concerts, etc ...

it's more than just walls + plumbing and electrical codes.....
Sure, and we live in the age of calculators. Just because we have calculators doesn't mean we should ban them on math tests. It means you adapt and test for the more important stuff. You remove the rote mundane aspect and focus on the abstract and nuance.

You still can't get GPT to understand and give nuanced responses without significant prompt engineering (usually requiring someone that understands said nuance of the specific problem). So... I'm not concerned. If you're getting GPT to pass your interviews, then you should change your interviews. LLMs are useful tools, but compression machines aren't nuanced thinking machines, even if they can mascaraed as such in fun examples.

Essentially ask yourself this: why in my example was the engineer not only okay with me grabbing my book but happy? Understand that and you'll understand my point.

Edit: I see you're the founder of Archipelago AI. I happen to be an ML researcher. We both know that there's lots of snakeoil in this field. Are you telling me you can't frequently sniff that out? Rabbit? Devon? Humane Pin? I have receipts for calling several of these out at launch. (I haven't looked more than your profile, should I look at your company?)
Unusably slow? It's like 0.3 seconds to first token and then pretty much all of the tokens can follow within a second.

I find it hard to understand the edge usecase for text-based models.
it's also possible for offices to be doing poorly but also still make more money than as a residential property. while vacancy rates are high, those vacancies are spread around, so some people are still renting in these office buildings. if you want to redevelop them you have to get the existing tenants out.
> And even if they use open weights, they will still be behind other companies have done model distillation and federated learning for years.

I'm sorry, but we're talking about "on edge" here though. Those other companies have no flipping hardware to run it "on edge", in a "generic" way, which is the goal. Apple's strategy involves the generic.

> If apple wants to use open weights

This doesn't make sense. Apple doesn't dictate the models you can use with their hardware. You can already accelerate LLAMA with the neural engines. You can download the app right now. You can already deploy your models on edge, on their hardware. That is the success they're achieving. You cannot effectively do this on competitor hardware, with good performance, from "budget" to "Pro" lineup, which is a requirement of the goal.

> they will still be behind other companies have done model distillation and federated learning for years.

What hardware are they running it on? Are they taking advantage of Apple (or other) hardware in their strategy? Federated learning is an application of "on edge", it doesn't *enable* on edge, which is part of Apple's strategy.

> Ask apple's newly poached AI hires this question. Doesn't seem like you would take an answer from me.

Integrating AI in their apps/experience is not the same as enabling a generic "on edge", default, capability in all Apple devices (which they have been working towards for years now). This is the end goal for "on edge". You seem to be talking about OS integration, or something else.

> People have been running distilled llamas on rPis with pretty good throughput.

Yes, the fundamental limitation there being hardware performance, not the model, with that "pretty good" making the "pretty terrible" user experience. But, there's also nothing stopping anyone from running these distilled (a requirement of limited hardware) models on Apple hardware, taking advantage of Apples fully defined "on edge" strategy. ;) Again, you can run llamas on Apple silicon, accelerated, as I do.
Apple is reportedly developing chips to run AI software in data centers
The End of the World as We Know It
You can get some surprisingly strong prints. I have a plastic storage unit in my garden (don't judge me).

The doors are about 4'h x 5'w. The hinges broke on the left door a few years ago and I printed some more in PLA from a Thingieverse design (1). They have put up with quite a lot of weather (UK, South West). One did fail but not by layer separation - the hinges sheared diagonally across the layers, ie the "threads" snapped instead of separating. I printed another and a huge lump of plastic carries on being useful instead of land fill.

I generally use a gyroid infill but that is as far as I go off piste from the defaults. Prusa MK3S - self assembled, stock everything. Filament "Sunlu" ie Amazon random and it seems to work well.

If layer printing is an issue for you then you might want a different process or look into inter layer adhesion. I'm no expert on that but I did study Civ Eng at college so I have an idea about shear and moments n that. I generally print small parts where strength isn't an issue. If you need a reasonable challenge to test your gear, try printing a small tank and turret (2) pick one with a long barrel and print it with the barrel vertical.

(1) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2187167
(2) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3553160
It is potentially expensive, but here's a different take.

Instead of writing a bunch of selectors that break often, imagine just being able to write a paragraph telling the LLM to fetch the top 10 headlines and their links on a news site. Or to fetch the images, titles, and prices off a store front?

It abstracts away a lot of manual fragile work.
I've only skimmed my way through it, but it seems like the bulk of the research started in 2000 so it would be fairly new.

It might still be just academic research at this point, but it at least seems to show some pretty interesting abstractions with which to analyze systems.

It came out in 2013, so if it is used in industry after that point, the book wouldn't say and you'd have to go hunting for whitepapers that cite the research probably.
The wall of sound sounds way more fascinating imho.
Command and Control by Schlosser is a great book about nuclear weapon strategy and policy during the cold war. Much of the book is about a disaster at a large ICBM silo. It's both fascinating and terrifying.
$ grep -A 999 Disable .config/zed/settings.json
// Disable all genAI crap.
"features": {
"copilot": false,
},
"show_copilot_suggestions": false,
"assistant": {
"version": 1,
"enabled": false,
"button": false,
},

// Disable all "social coding" features.
"calls": {
"share_on_join": false,
},
"collaboration_panel": {
"button": false,
},
"chat_panel": {
"button": false,
},
"notification_panel": {
"button": false,
},
}
Maybe we're just fish in water and don't know any different? GP, is there a better way?
It's a 10-core CPU + 10-core GPU + 16-core "NPU" (neural processing unit) for AI all on a consumer handheld. It's like a Ferrari engine in a Honda Civic - all we know is it's going to be fast and hopefully it doesn't catch on fire.
I recall `make nconfig` being much friendlier.
Perhaps future LPCAMM generations will require more bits? I still can't imagine apple using them unless required by right to repair laws. But those laws probably don't extend to making RAM upgradeable.
perf >= M3 while power consumption <= M3, while booted Linux and, say 50%: streaming a video on youtube.com over wifi at min brightness, 50% compiling some C project in a loop, minimum brightness from and to internal SSD.

Compared to macOS on M3 doing the same
> people with licenses still do interviews, often just as grueling

The licensed engineers I know think software interviews are insane.
Anyone know more about the "NPU" (neural processing unit)? Basically a GPU specialized for AI?
Seems we're on the same page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291828

> Give them a month and if they don't seem like a good fit, then fire them, with 2 months severance.

And this! I think this is quite effective and efficient. You aren't wasting anyone's time and making sure the person has adequate time to find their next income source. It immediately makes me respect you and I think would build high employee loyalty.
A lot of larger LLM's have been trained on millions of pages of html. They have the ability to understand raw html structure and extract content from them. I've been having some success with this using Mixtral 8x7B.
Afaik, while better anti-tank weapons did come about during the war, a lot of it was also to do with adapting tactics and usage of existing weapons to counter the new "meta". For example, the flak 88 and the 90mm M1 were originally intended for use as antiaircraft weapons and were widely deployed as early as 1936-38. They just so happened to also be excellent antitank weapons, once people figured out how to deploy them as such.
What AI is Apple scaling?
Discussion [0] (40 points, 23 hours ago, 43 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280967
When I was 9, the librarian was the scary lady in the corner that yelled at me if I so much as coughed.
430SY? What's SY? Square yards?
tears of the kingdom as well, supposedly they spent a whole year just to optimize it before release and it still chugs sometimes

i have a small hope backwards compatibly also comes with some optional performance improvements for those games...
Discussion [0] (41 points, 2 days ago, 8 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40268576
> Oh I mean what was the intended lesson from the teacher. Read less?

Don't try to cheat the system. Follow the spirit of rules obediently instead of attempting to use the wording of the rules to your advantage.
Yes, but having all three of those things (well, specs/performance is probably just one thing, but treating them as separate as you did means that I don't have to do the heavy lifting of figuring out what a third thing would actually be) IS, in fact, a luxury.

Nobody is away from a power source for longer than 18 hours. MOST people don't need the performance that a macbook air has, their NEEDS would be met by a raspberry pi... that is, basic finances, logging into various services, online banking, things that first world citizens "rely" on.

The definition of luxury is "great comfort and extravagance", and every current Apple product fits that definition. Past Apple definitely had non-luxury products, as recently as the iPhone C (discontinued 10 years ago)... but Apple has eliminated all low-value options from their lineup.
Engineers use MacBook pros because it’s the best built laptop, the best screen, arguably the best OS and most importantly - they’re not the ones paying for them.
The Package King of Miami
I understand, but think that in many relevant cases it'd now be non-ML approaches that would be "forced". Machine learning is just the easiest and best way to accomplish a large range of tasks.
Which sales channels?
> ... forego some of the safety checks in favor of performance.

Are you a manager at Boeing, by any chance?
Is 30 minutes really the amount of novel reading we find unacceptable these days? I’m not asking quite as snarkily as that sounds.

Do you think the problem would be alleviated if the hours of class time were shorter and (maybe) handed over to a study hall period or even to just being sent home? In college I know the theory is supposed to be that one hour of class time equals two hours of homework (though that rarely happens in practice, in my American experience). But high school has far more hours of class time.
Yes but Apple’s trying to build an ecosystem where users get highly quality, offline, low latency AI computed on their device. Today there’s not much of that. And I don’t think they even really know what’s going to justify all of that silicon in the neural engine and the memory bandwidth.

Imagine 5 years from now people have built whole stacks on that foundation. And then competing laptops need to ship that compute to the cloud, with all of the unsolvable problems that come with that. Privacy, service costs (ads?), latency, reliability.
Used it the other day with my teammate to pair on some stuff, and it genuinely felt magic. We went from never having used it, to digging through their code together in about a minute, and have used it a few times since. Really nice UX.
Those chinese cultivation novels are my guilty pleasures. I still look for a good translation, but they what I reach for when I just want to pass the time (and they're really long).
I wonder how many kids would read more if Taylor Swift or Mr Beast or 'Insert favourite youtuber/celebrity here' started promoting book reading.
Nintendo made $10.8B in FY24 with mobile and IP income up 81.6%
You call this free?
oh this is cool.
I did think for a 2 day setup and 1/2 day takedown it wasn't a huge efficiency saving but it is if you move it down the road at the same time.
As the comment above mentions, safety is a huge factor too.
Coffee nerd, I like to play with this stuff.
Steaming cold brew (flash or regular) will give a very smooth frothy texture - almost nitro like foam. You can serve them over ice to get them back to cold, or serve warm.

Tasty if you use good coffee, and pretty unique honestly - "steamed iced americano" or "aerocano" are the two names I've heard if you want other people's reports on them.

You're right that it's very different from the experience of microwaved cold brew, and a customers response can be all over the place depending on what they're expecting.
i am the same except i use music (lyrics and all) to drown everything else out. i don’t. price the lyrics at all, but my brain is processing them because every now and then i suddenly break out of focus and am like “wait, what the hell did that song just say?” usually on comedy songs
From the article: "...but they will not have the ability to train the model itself on new information and data because the model is air-gapped."

so unless MS does periodic dumps its going to be out of date real quick. So much for the air gap.
So laptops are now edge devices?
from the following link (Council for Economic Education), there are 28 states requiring students to take a course in economics to graduate.

https://www.councilforeconed.org/policy-advocacy/survey-of-t...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizfrazierpeck/2024/04/01/2024-...
The council shifted hard-right last election, and Bruce Harrell (former council chairman and career politician who has blamed everyone but himself for the city's failures in years past) has a full slate supporting him.

The slate's politics seems to be pro-out-of-state-business/landlord/police, anti-density, anti-pedestrian, anti-homeless NIMBYism. Politically positioned as the common-sense solution to the insane progressive politics that have been ruining the city.

The metrics aren't exactly on their side. SPD continues to be an incredible combination of overpaid, unaccountable, incapable of hiring, useless, and actively dangerous to the public, the homeless numbers keep growing, rents and cost of living are rising, and the council is doing everything it can to stonewall the state's efforts to solving the housing crisis in the city.

> Why do you think things are so bad in the PNW compared to other places, if not the governance?

It might have something to do with the hundreds of thousands of highly paid people moving into an area which didn't build enough housing units to support them, thus displacing tens of thousands of people out of the margins and onto the street.

It probably didn't have as much to do with (a loud) minority of progressives that were on the council as we've been told.

I've only got a child's grasp of free market economics (and of musical chairs), but this seems to be the most predictable outcome of that sort of thing. When the number of people in an area exceeds the number of beds, some of those people will eventually be sleeping in tents.
Sounds like committees....animes tend to have a visionary person who writes the core story and characters.....

Hollywood is filled with board rooms of groups who are all incentivized in a way to 'get buy in' through concessions....
the first concession is the art...the vision....

then the talent....

then it's all down hill from there
Is the inventory tracked so closely that you can detect a missing box of McNugs?
> Do people not understand that Apple's 'price gouging' is about UX? A person who has the money to buy a 1TB iPad is worth more than average customer. A 16GB RAM doubtlessly results in a faster UX and that person is more likely to continue purchasing.

And that decision somehow turns into making budget conscious people's UX shittier? How is that a reason not to make 16gb RAM, which is almost a bare minimum in 2024, available to everyone?
> [Apple's] privacy-first strategy

That is a marketing and advertising strategy.
There’s a lot more cost involved in running a library than buying books. Staff and building upkeep are big expenses. That said, you want to have some newer books coming in, too, if you want to keep kids interested.
It is probably not related, but gopls has a known issue with its heuristic for picking imports: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61208
All you really need is one alias.

alias homegit="git --work-tree=$HOME --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles.git"
Move fast and break things runs into problems when “break things” translates to collapsed tunnels.
> can lights

Well, there’s your problem.

These things are just not a good idea; the heat has to go somewhere.

Eight years ago, I bought a bunch of Ikea GU-10 LED bulbs, I believe 6EUR for two; I think roughly a quarter have since died. But they’re exposed spotlight fittings rather than recessed. Never heard of those lasting particularly long.
> IME Apple has always been the most honest when it makes performance claims.

In nearly every single release, their claims are well above actual performance.
These days I bet Klipper doesn't care about how many axes are simultaneously moving.
Ultrasonics seems like a heavily underused technology based on the little I know about it. Piezo elements are cheap too and you can get a lot done with them
You wouldn't expect to get a nice house for $40,000 in 1995 in the United States. The median sale price for a house was $133,000 in Q1 1995:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
Nintendo has broken its silence on the successor to its Switch